like, and i will tell you that the best music made in that genre was made in the 1970s, and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. >> what was great about a me decade is that it allowed the greatest artists of our times to do some of their greatest work, because they were really exploring that is, as deep as popular art ever gets in the night time. >> i might not ever get home. this ain't no party. this ain't no disco. this ain't no fooling around. i love to hold your hand. i love to kiss your man i ain't got time for that. jive. trouble in transit. got through the roadblock. we blended in with the crowd. we got computers. we're tapping phone lines. i know that that

please. >> there are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. >> it's all related with psychedelics and the war. the protesting. >> i'm planning on having a good time as long as i can smoke pot with your kids. >> and then you'll understand why the kids are happier. >> it's a giant love in. >> people should be uninhibited in their sexual expression. >> you cannot ignore a change in morality. >> they're fascists. they don't like hippies. and they don't like the things we do. >> we do have to maintain law, order and decency on the streets. what we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. >> we're not thinking about anything else. they are trying to do what no one else has ever done before, and find a new way for humanity. to.

>> america in the early 60s. it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. things were kind of at a standstill.

>> the baseline culture was materialism. and also the feeling that the culture itself didn't honor the human spirit and didn't honor creativity. >> in the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst a social movement called a beat generation a novel titled on the road became a bestseller. >> when kerouac's book comes out. it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and it defined it as a spiritual revolution that if we're living in an age of conformity, if everybody is trying to work for the corporation, that you're losing a sense of self. >> i was traveling west one time at the junction of the state line of colorado. i saw in the clouds huge and massed above the fiery golden desert of even fall. the great image of god with forefinger pointed

straight at me. come on, boy, go thou across the ground. go mourn for man. go mourn. go groan. go groan alone. go roll your bones alone. >> jack kerouac became like a godfather for the counterculture. >> the village has a life and language all its own. if you dig it, you're hip. if you don't, man, you're square. coffeehouses, the neighborhood bars of bohemia, where the strongest potion is coffee. and the coffeehouse poet is the specialty of the house. to find a place where the eyes can rest. >> beatniks. they had these coffeehouses. they would go in and and play chess and read poetry. and those same coffeehouses became a kind of a proving ground for folk singers. i was standing and all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos, standing down in new york town one day. >> folk music. >> it gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. my outlook is that

topical songs should be sung because we don't do anything about the bomb. you know, the whole situation comes to an end. >> there's got to be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered to them, you know? i mean, democrat, republican. and i would like to offer some kind of alternative somehow, you know. >> folk revival scene had a big part of politics. you can't get left politics out of woody guthrie or pete seeger. and so the greenwich village movement was there to celebrate people's culture. >> if you liked the music, you really were signing on for their ways of looking at the world to and then eventually one guy emerges as being special. >> a bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers blood. >> during that time in the 60s, as that cultural revolution was slowly bubbling

and kids were starting to question authority, question what was happening in their country. they're looking for answers. >> bob dylan thought that folk music was poetry. he took beat energy and mixed it with folk culture and its more lyrical intensity than anybody's put to song before. >> and the name is used. it is plain for the politician's gain as he rises to fame. >> up until the time of bob dylan, there were the songwriters and there were the singers. dylan started writing his own music. >> he says, i am going to comment on the world. i'm going to comment on the nature of this human experience. bob dylan was in this sort of white hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before, only a pawn in that game after the revolution of bob

dylan, the music world moves west. go where you want to go and do what you want to do. >> it with the weapon. you. >> you want. laurel canyon becomes the epicenter of the rock revolution. >> the music scene was not happening in new york anymore. it was now l.a. everybody moved to laurel canyon. >> actors. musicians, artists. and so it was a kind of a whole community, very open. if you were driving over laurel canyon and you saw somebody hitchhiking, you'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother. get in. you know, where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joni mitchell. crosby was close. steven was close. >> now it was all these artists who were singing the truth. and their truth was this idyllic sort of sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and

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kesey created a drug commune at la honda, which is an hour from san francisco. great artists love smashing traditions, and it is best kesey was doing that. everybody would have this communal lsd trip together. tom wolfe would write the electric kool-aid acid test about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. >> the number of times that i would get up and think, what the hell had happened to me? >> they thought they'd do me a favor. >> they were having the world's fair in new york, so a bunch of us were going to go, but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon. so he bought this converted school bus. >> kesey. he was going to put the bus in day-glo bright colors and then go what he called unsettling america. blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was that you have to present something to them that is so different. there's a crack comes open where something new can come

in, and the reaction of all these people was wonderful because what it was in 1964, there was no other thing like this happening. >> it's part of a kind of cultural revolution going on, making the squares pay notice to this underground of america. >> when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived and picked him up because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts and stuff like that. and kerouac sat on the couch drinking a big, tall budweiser. he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing, you know? i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. >> kesey, in many ways, was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would allow you to see a larger truth. and

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that are that are confused and hungry for some kind of spiritual meaning in life. >> that's why all these people are down here. that's why there's so much interest in the haight ashbury, because it offers some kind of hope. >> we moved up and lived right down the street from the psychedelic shop. people were growing their hair long there, wearing beads. they were playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment at that point. at the beginning, that's when it was just like one big giant family. >> before you knew it, it was a congregating place for artists, and the dividing line seemed to be the psychedelic experience. you couldn't understand the posters, you couldn't understand the fashions, you couldn't understand anything. if you hadn't gotten high. >> the diggers group scrounges food and money to feed free those who arrive in panhandle park with a bowl and an appetite. diggers are people who share, says their manifesto, and their aim is a society where everything is shared, everything is free.

>> the diggers were one of the first groups that were into social consciousness about what was needed to take care of this huge group of people that were coming into the haight ashbury. >> they have three shop looks more like a playground at first sight. here they make sheets and clothes for other hippies who can come and take what they want without paying anything for it. >> everything in the store was free. tools, clothing, televisions. and so we were inviting people to imagine a way of life that would please them. and then to make it real by doing it. >> what we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. >> we're not thinking about anything else. we're not thinking about any kind of power. >> we're not thinking about any of those kind of struggles. we're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. that's not what we want. nobody wants to get hurt. nobody wants to hurt anybody. we would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life, you know, and like, think about moving the whole human race ahead. a step or a few steps. >> we wanted to learn more about the real meaning of life.

why are we here? certainly not to kill each other, but here to celebrate life, to make music and do art and love each other. >> these people are hippies. they represent a new form of social rebellion. it is hard to figure out what positive things they are in favor of. >> the reason we can no longer identify with the kinds of activities that that the older generation are engaged in, is because those activities are, for us, meaningless. they have led to. a monstrous war in vietnam, for example. >> we did want change from war, from rigid ideas of what the sexes ought to be doing, a change from black people ought to be here, and white people ought to be here. no. why can't we try and make that work? >> the haight-ashbury community has created the council for a summer of love in san francisco.

>> the council is calling for creative love happenings for every weekend throughout the summer. we ask all who come here to come here in love, and we ask all who live here to greet all men with love. >> they at their best are trying for a kind of group sainthood, and saints running in groups are likely to be ludicrous. they depend on hallucination for their philosophy. this is not a new idea, and it has never worked. >> it was sort of a divide of generations. a lot of mistrust. young people didn't trust old people. old people didn't understand young people. what's so offensive about long hair? >> it looks sloppy. just. it doesn't it doesn't differentiate the boys from the girls. enough. >> we didn't call ourselves hippies. the hippies are a fabrication. they were an attempt to diminish young adults and infantilize us. and it certainly serves to exclude

the people that were deeply thoughtful about the world, that were ready to dedicate their lives to making change, and that questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. nothing works. the only thing we're kid is presented with is when you grow up. look, you know, uh, you can join the army, you can go to war, you can get a gig working as an engineer and become a vegetable and drive to work in your own car and your own bimetal box. andyou know, just it looks absurd. you know, people in their metal boxelike thigoing alover from job to job, frustrated, uptigh uh what joy is ere in life? life should be. le is, should is and should be. ecstasy. >> the counterculture had the arrogance to tell everybody else what they were doing is wrong, and nobody likes that. >> it's estimated that anywhere from 10 to 200,000 youngsters may pour in to haight ashbury this summer.

>> many people are apprehensive. they fear that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. >> haight ashbury cannot handle 100,000 because that there isn't room. >> the tension between the government and the people began to be evident. >> nobody should let their young children come into san francisco unsupervised to become a part of a group such as that. >> they're fascists, as far as i'm concerned. and they they don't they don't like hippies and they don't like the things we do. and they try to harass us and bother us in some way. >> their revolutions, a war between generations, the hippies rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of youth culture against the establishment is in full swing on every front. >> about four policemen and a plainclothesman came in and said, everybody get out, everybody get out! the store is closed. they wouldn't give a reason. they wouldn't identify, you know, under what premise they were doing this. when we asked them, they started pushing people around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor is this is really

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>> we now seem to be witnessing in this country and elsewhere, an intense preoccupation with the pursuit of pleasure. call it hedonism, call it self gratification, call it what you will. you cannot avoid noticing it. you may not like it, you may not accept it, but you cannot ignore it. a change in morality. he files high. >> and when you touch down, you find that it's turn on, tune in, drop out. >> i spent some time in new york and i spent some time in london. and i'm here to tell you it's happening all over. in any large city. there were other haight-ashbury which people could point to see. we are on the map. we're big, and

we're far more interesting than what you all have to offer. there wants to be found among those afraid of losing their ground. >> may. >> town how do you answer the questions of parents who are concerned about the use of lsd and marijuana for their children? >> these are young people who are hungering for older people, for their parents to listen to them. these these youngsters want to share with their parents the grandeur and the glory that they are encountering. and perhaps eventually, when you're spiritually ready, you'll turn on with your children. if you think that's the right thing to do. >> the monterey pop, it was the absolute ultimate love in.

>> down by the window, just looking. >> out at the rain. >> all the best festival that i've played pretty much ever is. monterey pop festival. at the rain. >> monterey hit like lightning. >> popular music was changing and it becomes something different. and there was a whole new generation of people that wanted to march with it. it said, get on board, we're leaving town. we hear you're going to be. >> and i want you to love you. i want to love you, but so long. oh yeah, you realize this is

janis joplin. >> before she was known, before she'd ever done her first album, before she'd ever done her first single. i. rain. >> some came along, it's just music at its freshest. >> it's music that is just being born. and the audience is like, no. oh, whoa, whoa oh, honey. >> oh, this can't be. oh. boop boop boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom. babe babe babe babe babe babe. now if i said no no no no no. yeah. oh and i. want to it was. oh people tell me what love honey. what love is. >> like. well it's like a ball.

and. in a. tree. >> everything was love and peace and music. and the policeman who was in charge brought flowers out to his men. and he said, don't bust anybody. >> monterey. was that hippie dream come true. >> culture was changing. >> the hippie movement. it was swaying the mainstream. this is where the youngsters come to buy their clothes. and not just the youngsters. it's the young adults and the men who are 40, 50 and even 60 years old in the states. >> pot is going middle class and spreading like prohibition liquor. as more and more citizens get zonked out of their minds, the drug cult

enters the bloodstream of american life. like it or not, we're living in the stone age at its best. >> the counterculture came in with hard punches to the mainstream culture. >> people have already changed their minds about contraception, abortion, premarital sex. >> the 1960s were absolutely a sexual revolution. because of the pill, women could take charge of their own bodies. they could be sexual, that they didn't have to get pregnant. everything sort of coalesces, sort of the perfect storm of societal forces come together. >> here. >> if you love somebody and people here love everybody. if you want to make love to somebody, then you should. >> there's no reason why you shouldn't. >> free love was all well and good, and there was a lot of accidental sex. but we didn't look at it as hedonism. people were just so open to each other and life was beautiful, you know? and

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>> are the topic. tonight is the hippies we have with us. mr.. jack kerouac over here who is said to have started the whole beat generation business. >> jack kerouac never wanted to be a prophet. he wanted to be a great american writer. but fame destroys people in america. >> to what extent do you believe that the beat generation is related to the to the hippies? well, what do they have in common? was this an evolution from the one or the other? this is the older ones. yeah. i'm 46 years old. these kids are 18. the beat generation was a generation of beatitude and pleasure in life and tenderness. i believe in order and piety. >> here's the progenitor, really, of the counterculture kind of disowning his own babies and trying to make sense of a decade of the 60s that he

didn't feel parried to, apparently some kind of. >> dionysian movement in which i did not intend. this was pure. my heart. so all sorts of people have been writing various articles about the hippies, usually about the hippies, as if they were animals. something to look at. thus we've gotten hundreds and literally thousands of people coming up to haight-ashbury to watch people, makes haight-ashbury a terribly unpleasant place to be in, and news got out about the haight-ashbury. >> it became overrun. >> we're now entering what is known as the largest hippie colony in the world, the fountainhead of the hippie subculture. the nickname is hash berries and marijuana. >> of course, with lsd is being used literally. >> people made the trip to san francisco to be a part of

something, but by the time they got there, that trip was over. >> this is the latest stage in the evolution of the hippie movement. >> the hippies are trying to get away, so they go out to a cabin in the countryside and start a commune. here they can get away from the tourists and the reporters who badger them in san francisco communes have started. >> and this is really what the hippie movement was all about, an idea of sharing everything clothes and food and everything. people could just help themselves, you know, we lived communally because it was the cheapest way to live. >> a lot of people began to clarify and simplify their lives. >> what will follow this dispersal of the hippie movement to the countryside is hard to predict. they may be, as they say, coming here to build the foundations for a new society in this nation. or they may be coming like the wooly mammoth, to find their own extinction. >> down where the woodbine twineth.

>> that's where i meet my love. down where the sun never shines. down in the woods. where the woodbine twine i was working for the new york times in the catskills, and it was just a couple of us going up there as we went north of the city, we began to run into traffic jams. >> i found a state cop. i said, what the hell is going on? he says, i don't know. there were thousands of people here and they're all going to some farm. and it was, of course, woodstock. >> i think woodstock was an opportunity for people to realize they weren't alone. a lot of people who in their hometown or in their family, felt isolated, realized they weren't. >> the townspeople, quite frankly, were terrified at the prospect of the hippie arrival. i was apprehensive. this little

hamlet has a population of under 100 people. when i started hearing the figures of 200,300, finally 500,000. we had a sea of people there. >> the word got out. everybody and their brother came from all over the country. >> first the sudden rain, then the thirst and hunger from the shortage of water and food just for the opportunity to spend a few days in the country getting stoned on their drugs and grooving on the music. >> we got together and had a little powwow about, what are we going to do to feed these people? we went into new york buying 1,500 pounds of bulgur wheat, 1,500 pounds of rolled oats, 130,000 paper plates, 130,000 dixie cups. and i believe we served 200,000 people. >> by now there are tens of millions of people who feel themselves to be an

irresistible river of change. and you get something incandescent. freedom, freedom. >> freedom freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom bringing freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom freedom. freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom. >> we'd had love ins in l.a. on the weekends, where everybody gets dressed up and goes to the park and brings an instrument. but to see hundreds of thousands of people like a meeting of all the tribes from all over the country. boy, we didn't know there were so many of us that felt the same.

we must be in heaven, man. >> a rock music festival that drew hundreds of thousands of young people to a dairy farm in white lake, new york over the weekend came to an end today. admittedly, there was marijuana as well as music at the rock festival, but there was also no rioting. what did not happen at that dairy farm is possibly more significant than what did happen. these long haired, mostly white kids in their blue jeans and sandals were no wide eyed anarchists looking for trouble. they remained polite. residents and resorts freely emptied their cupboards for the kids. merchants were stunned by their politeness, and while such a spectacle may never happen again, it has recorded the growing proportions of this youthful culture in the mind of adult america. >> whenever you see a phenomenon, especially if you're living in it at the time, you tend to think that's the arrival. this is the dawning and the start of something new. unfortunately,

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absolutely free. text garden to 231231. >> this is cnn, the world's news network is this going to be woodstock west? >> well, it's going to be san francisco. yeah. >> woodstock was followed by altamont. you know, only a few months later. and there couldn't have been two more different concerts. >> the jefferson airplane, jefferson airplane we had had the hells angels be security at a number of free in the park concerts that we had done, and they were fine.

>> they were funny. they were doing what they were supposed to do. so we suggested using hells angels, and that's the other side of the slide. >> i believe. now. easy. >> what happened was a lot of speed and alcohol. that's a deadly combination for bikers. marty said the f word to one of the hells angels while we were on stage. the hells angel knocks him down. that was just the beginning. >> i'd like to mention that the hells angels just smashed marty balin in the face and knocked him out for a bit. i'd like to thank you for that. >> you're talking to me. i'm going to talk to you. >> i'm talking to you, man. i'm talking to the people that hit my lead singer in the head to my people. >> right. let me tell you what's happening. >> you. what's happening? oh,

no one thing makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. >> and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all. >> oh, that's what the story is here. yeah. >> oh, bummer. really? i mean, i can scare him. >> who's doing all the hells angels? hells angels are doing beating on musicians. >> marty got beat up really weird. >> it's really weird for. i think, you know. >> when logic, when we left, it was dark and the rolling stones were on and we were on a helicopter. paul kantner looked down and he said, wow, it looks like somebody's getting killed down there. he was right. they were.

>> of the dark side. fico everything. bari don't. >> in california. five members of a so-called religious cult, including charles manson, the guru or high priest, have been indicted in the murder of sharon tate and six others. all the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in a glare of hollywood publicity. the involvement of a mystical hippie clan which despised the straight, affluent society. young girls, supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. morning. >> morning, sun shining this morning. >> it is. yeah. >> charles manson cleverly

masqueraded behind the common image of being a hippie. goes up to the haight-ashbury district, surrounds himself with a young bunch of followers. their lifestyle was sex and lsd trips. >> eventually, he gets them to commit mass murder for him with blood. the killer had scrawled on a refrigerator door the words death to pigs. >> you see, prior to these murders, no one associated hippies with violence and murder. >> people would pick up a hitchhiking hippie. >> there was no big deal. but after the manson murders, you saw a hippie with long hair, hitchhiking, and the image of manson would enter the driver's mind, and they'd drive right by. >> by the time of charles manson and watching altamont and seeing what happened there, it symbolizes the drained idealism of the spiritual quest of the beats and early hippies. >> today, the magic is gone, aimless and disorganized, the hippies have fallen prey to their own free spirit, free love, free drugs, and too much

free publicity have gradually corrupted them. >> if something happened to haight ashbury since last year, we hear it's not the same place. well, no it isn't. >> the love ins brought more and more people, and then people who were really just bums and just trng to get into a good thing, you kw, free food, free everythingand so they all just came in, u know. ana lot of really rotten people. and so now y've really t a bad thing. i mean, it used to byou could set ur stuff down beside t road and nobody would touch it. and now it got so you couldn't even put your, your things inside of a building. somebody would come along and take everything you had. >> well, one day i woke up very hungry and very dirty and tired and disgusted. >> so i decided, you know, get a job and settle down and get serious. >> joe's job is making jewelry. he's been taking a six month course to learn how it's hard to begin getting up at 8:00 every morning. >> and doing all those changes. >> joe bought the suit, uncomfortable though it looked. will he be equally uncomfortable in his new life? there have been generation gaps

before, but today's is probably the widest yet. can the joe's of america bridge the gap and conform without society making concessions in return? >> i'd say there was a common element in the counterculture of people trying to invent a new world, but people mature. their point of view gets more nuanced. the costs start to come due. children come into the world. >> that idea of sex, drugs and rock n roll. it's a youth dream. then youth dies. >> yet our mainstream culture took what it needed from the hippies. >> the actual movement of the 60s was the movement towards something more authentic. >> in the 60s, we thought of other people as part of our own family. we were into caring for society as a whole. >> this is what the revolution is all about. mercy is better than justice. the carrot is better than the stick. and the most important lesson is be kind. be kind.

>> to me, every day was a high water mark. we played music all day long. we worked. we did not have jobs. it was the most carefree period of my life. dylan has this great line in an early song. he says, i wish, i wish, i wish in vain that we could sit simply in that room again. $1,000 at the drop of a hat. i'd give it all gladly. if our lives could be like that.